Just curious - I'm in the UK and have a bank card that I can just sort of wave at a payment terminal for transactions = £15 - handy when buying lunch. This seems a more elegant solution - do you have these in the US?
Sorry, but the article refers to American trade associations. I live in a country (the UK) that used to rule a large part of the world, and be by far the most advanced in industry and technology. This is no longer true. If the US wants to go the same way, just keep on stifling innovation in this way. There's nothing to stop China, India, Sweden etc etc from innovating with complete freedom.
This is not intended to start a flamewar; I've been to the US and enjoyed it, and I'd be the first to defend all the good things that have come from America (despite the current administration).
Detailed specs are useless. A broad spec that defines the general features, who the damn users are and what they need to achieve is far from useless. Let the intelligent software developers figure out the details, but don't let them lose sight of the general direction they should be taking.
So why didn't these guys register the relevant domain names and common variants then? Sounds like a pretty obvious step in created a web-based email system to me...!
"Reluctant" legal action my arse; they're just hoping Google will settle out of court.
"Make it easy to evaluate the current state of the system" ([1] p. 188). You can do that by providing feedback in the form of messages or flashing buttons.
I thought we'd finally got rid of horrible VB apps with coloured flashing buttons, and the dreaded BLINK tag on web pages! Is he suggesting we go back to this?
"Slashdot rendering problem in FireFox: Press Ctrl+ , Ctrl-"
Or, if you scroll down the comments using your mouse wheel, you can hold down CTRL and use mouse-wheel-up for one click, and then mouse-wheel-down for one click. Does the same thing.
Argh, cannot... resist... urge... to... respond...
OK, there's a couple of things you should know about that list of programmes.
Mr. Bean is
a) Not made by the BBC.
b) Utter shit.
Sorry dude, other than that it's a good list.
I Don't know who it was, but the reason was that although the next logical name was "585", you can't trademark a number, so they called it Pentium instead (the "pent---" relates to the 5 in 586).
"I'm sick of fat people, ugly people, stupid people, gay people, coloured people, female people, whiny people all complaining they don't have the opportunities in life they would like and it must be someone else's fault. I'm sick of women that act like men and femininity being a crime, unless you're a man in which case you're a new man which nobody ever wanted because there was nothing wrong with the old one"
Do you honestly expect people to take you seriously with racist, homophobic and sexist slurs like this all in one paragraph? Learn to frame your arguments like an adult, and you will be treated as such, otherwise you just sound like yet another whacko internet troll, and WE ARE FUCKING SUCK OF THEM
/Off-topic, sorry SlashDotters, had to let of steam there.
The article states that the new 'scope costs about the same as Hubble, but will only have a 10-year lifetime, while Hubble is expected to be in service for 20 years.
Surely modern manufacturing etc should be able to improve on Hubble's lifetime for the same money?
What am I missing?
When I go and visit my girlfriend in Edinburgh I have to do without an Internet connection for up to 3 hour
Then fly, dude, it's a lot quicker and cheaper if you're close to an EasyJet airport like Luton.
I submitted the article, so no problem;-)
I live in the UK, and would probably never have visited the Supreme Court website otherwise. Posting
a hyperlink was not intended to be an insult to intelligence, but rather an easy way for the curious to research further without a Google search.
Interestingly, he says:
"You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux."
We all know that Pixar and ILM use Linux; the question of whether George Lucas is in his right mind is open to debate;-)
While we're (sorta) on the subject, can anyone recommend a place to download old fashioned scrolling shoot-'em ups for the PC? Just to fly a spacecraft and pick up powerups to blast waves of aliens - that's what I crave!
" Being that I'm in physics and I barely need a home computer, I'm always mystified by people who have things like rack-mount systems in their homes. I never manage to understand why you'd need that sort of thing."
"# TyServer: A daemon that silently runs on your tivo, awaiting requests by the other tools to list all of your recordings, get information about each recording, or directly extract any given recording. Unlike most programs that already do this, this one is written entirely in C. This means that it's faster, and more stable than any other software of this kind."
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Just curious - I'm in the UK and have a bank card that I can just sort of wave at a payment terminal for transactions = £15 - handy when buying lunch. This seems a more elegant solution - do you have these in the US?
Sorry, but the article refers to American trade associations. I live in a country (the UK) that used to rule a large part of the world, and be by far the most advanced in industry and technology. This is no longer true. If the US wants to go the same way, just keep on stifling innovation in this way. There's nothing to stop China, India, Sweden etc etc from innovating with complete freedom.
This is not intended to start a flamewar; I've been to the US and enjoyed it, and I'd be the first to defend all the good things that have come from America (despite the current administration).
Detailed specs are useless. A broad spec that defines the general features, who the damn users are and what they need to achieve is far from useless. Let the intelligent software developers figure out the details, but don't let them lose sight of the general direction they should be taking.
So why didn't these guys register the relevant domain names and common variants then? Sounds like a pretty obvious step in created a web-based email system to me...!
"Reluctant" legal action my arse; they're just hoping Google will settle out of court.
I don't get it - where is the audio on this thing? In the background there must have been either:
1. A swooshy spaceship noice
or
2. The opening bars of the Star Trek: TNG theme tune
" just type some text or see the help if you dont know what to do here..."
There you go, don't say I never do anything for you guys.
We've got a runner!
From TFA:
"Make it easy to evaluate the current state of the system" ([1] p. 188). You can do that by providing feedback in the form of messages or flashing buttons.
I thought we'd finally got rid of horrible VB apps with coloured flashing buttons, and the dreaded BLINK tag on web pages! Is he suggesting we go back to this?
"Slashdot rendering problem in FireFox: Press Ctrl+ , Ctrl-"
Or, if you scroll down the comments using your mouse wheel, you can hold down CTRL and use mouse-wheel-up for one click, and then mouse-wheel-down for one click. Does the same thing.
Argh, cannot... resist... urge... to... respond... OK, there's a couple of things you should know about that list of programmes. Mr. Bean is a) Not made by the BBC. b) Utter shit. Sorry dude, other than that it's a good list.
I Don't know who it was, but the reason was that although the next logical name was "585", you can't trademark a number, so they called it Pentium instead (the "pent---" relates to the 5 in 586).
Horribly wrong! ;-)
It's Fee-Bee
Almost?!? I get my new CDs from Play.com for less than this with free delivery! (Yes I live in the UK)
"I'm sick of fat people, ugly people, stupid people, gay people, coloured people, female people, whiny people all complaining they don't have the opportunities in life they would like and it must be someone else's fault. I'm sick of women that act like men and femininity being a crime, unless you're a man in which case you're a new man which nobody ever wanted because there was nothing wrong with the old one"
/Off-topic, sorry SlashDotters, had to let of steam there.
Do you honestly expect people to take you seriously with racist, homophobic and sexist slurs like this all in one paragraph? Learn to frame your arguments like an adult, and you will be treated as such, otherwise you just sound like yet another whacko internet troll, and WE ARE FUCKING SUCK OF THEM
No, sorry. There is a limit to how far we'll ever to able to see, and it's called our "light cone".
John Barrow's book "Impossibility" has a nice description of this (and other limits).
The article states that the new 'scope costs about the same as Hubble, but will only have a 10-year lifetime, while Hubble is expected to be in service for 20 years.
Surely modern manufacturing etc should be able to improve on Hubble's lifetime for the same money? What am I missing?
When I go and visit my girlfriend in Edinburgh I have to do without an Internet connection for up to 3 hour Then fly, dude, it's a lot quicker and cheaper if you're close to an EasyJet airport like Luton.
I wanted to know more about the video camera after the throwaway line "750 frames per second" - wow!
I submitted the article, so no problem ;-)
I live in the UK, and would probably never have visited the Supreme Court website otherwise. Posting
a hyperlink was not intended to be an insult to intelligence, but rather an easy way for the curious to research further without a Google search.
Interestingly, he says: "You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux." We all know that Pixar and ILM use Linux; the question of whether George Lucas is in his right mind is open to debate ;-)
Maybe not, but that 17GB HD capture will sure make a tasty DivX...
Yeah, absolutely. Remember the old software cliche about "fool proof" systems...?
While we're (sorta) on the subject, can anyone recommend a place to download old fashioned scrolling shoot-'em ups for the PC? Just to fly a spacecraft and pick up powerups to blast waves of aliens - that's what I crave!
TIA!
" Being that I'm in physics and I barely need a home computer, I'm always mystified by people who have things like rack-mount systems in their homes. I never manage to understand why you'd need that sort of thing."
;-)
Oh, music, movies, games, web, chat, photos... you know - fun!
From the TyStudio site:
"# TyServer: A daemon that silently runs on your tivo, awaiting requests by the other tools to list all of your recordings, get information about each recording, or directly extract any given recording. Unlike most programs that already do this, this one is written entirely in C. This means that it's faster, and more stable than any other software of this kind."
Heh.